In 2002, I spoke with Jerome Bressler, author of the
damning FDA audit that exposed the corruption of the G. D. Searle Co.,
originator of aspartame. Bressler reported that rats killed by the poison
were resurrected on paper, neoplasms filtered out and cancers caused by
aspartame, were ignored and deleted from Searle's records. Today this
rat poison and cancer stimulator is sold as NutraSweet and Equal and is
in Diet Coke and thousands of other foods and drinks.

Bressler had retired and I wanted to thank him for being
so honest. But his reply was shocking. He said, "If you think that's
bad, when the FDA retyped my report they left out the worst 20%. They deleted
my cover letter and there are two mice studies you need to see. Get those
reports, they're very important." Doctors H. J. Roberts (Aspartame
Disease: An Ignored Epidemic,www.sunsentpress.com ) and Russell Blaylock
(Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills, www.russellblaylockmd.com ) also
called Jerome Bressler and got the same information.

This report is suppose to be a matter of public record
so Dr. Roberts asked his Congressman to get the record from the FDA. They
even refused his Congressman saying it was confidential. We were amazed
that the FDA could withhold public documents from United States Congressmen.
It's incriminating that a government agency like the FDA who is suppose
to be protecting the health of the public would sell its soul to drug and
chemical companies. [See the Bressler Report at <http://www.dorway.com/bressler.txt>http://www.dorway.com/bressler.txt
Note that some tables are blacked out and parts of the text are omitted.]

FDA took the Fifth. But the fifth amendment to our Constitution
doesn't permit federal agencies to hide criminal collusion with firms it
regulates.

So on November 13, 2007 I sent a certified request to
FDA, exercising my Freedom of Information rights to receive the 20% of
the report they deleted. They said its confidential and denied my request.
I wrote back and explained that Jerome Bressler never gave permission for
them to delete data from his FDA audit, and since this audit is public
information they must release it.

http://www.mpwhi.com/letter_to_foia_fda.htm

FDA's response arrived January 14, 2008 from Chicago,
signed by George F. Bailey, Freedom of Information Officer, stating this:
"Due to the amount of time that has elapsed since the Bressler Report
was written and based on the FDA's Records Retention Schedule, records
in our files of that age have been destroyed." They were confidential
in November but when they realized there was no legal excuse to withhold
what they had doctored they were simply deleted.

Jerome Bressler blew the cover on G. D. Searle's perjuries.
Some FDA bureaucrat, to protect Searle, blue-penciled Bressler's report,
then the vital details of aspartame's toxicity were denied to a congressman,
and now its destroyed. Balderdash! This watchdog for the health of a Nation
received more complaints on aspartame than on any other additive. In 1995
they published a list of 10,000 consumer complaints. Isn't it comforting
to know they destroy the evidence of corruption, of deaths, disabilities
and complications visited on the public from approved drugs that produce
serious or fatal injuries. With digital recording & storage technology
that can maintain an infinity of data, FDA plunders it. Call it criminal
FDA-Gate!

Protecting industry is what the FDA does. Jerome Bressler
is not the only one who blew the whistle on the FDA. In 1987 Dr. Jacqueline
Verrett, a toxicologist and member of the Bressler Task Force, testified
before a US Senate hearing. She described the discrepancies found in the
Searle tests of aspartame as 'serious departures from acceptable toxicological
protocols.' "It is unthinkable," she said, 'that any reputable
toxicologist giving a complete, objective evaluation of the data resulting
from such a study could conclude anything other than that the study was
uninterpretable and worthless and should be repeated.' "On the crucial
question itself: 'It would appear that the safety of aspartame and its
breakdown products has still not been satisfactorily determined, since
many of the flaws cited in these three studies were also present in all
of the other studies submitted by Searle.' "

What is particularly important about FDA toxicologist
Dr. Verrett's testimony is she is saying that aspartame still had not been
proven safe in 1987 and it had been on the market since 1981 which was
due to the political chicanery of Don Rumsfeld who was CEO of Searle.
Here is a clip about it from Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World:

http://www.soundandfury.tv/pages/rumsfeld2.html

Dr. Verrett went even further on exposing the FDA. She
wrote the book in l973 "Eating May Be Hazardous To Your Health: The
Case Against Food Additives". The Chicago Tribune said: "After
spending 15 years as a research scientist for the Food and Drug Administration,
Verrett decided to bite the hand that had been feeding her. The FDA, she
says, is not performing its duty; it has the legal authority to end food
pollution, but it has not done so and it appears that its aims are not
in that direction. Privy to a lot of inside information, Verrett (with
the aid of writer Carper) makes a good case for the necessity of consumer
protest. Read it -- all you've got to lose it your appetite."

Heroine, Dr. Jacqueline Verrett was not the only FDA
toxicologist who was on site and saw Searle's studies, and exposed FDA.
On August 1, l985 FDA toxicologist, Dr. Adrian Gross, told Congress at
least one of Searle's studies "has established beyond ANY REASONABLE
DOUBT that aspartame is capable of inducing brain tumors in experimental
animals and that this predisposition of it is of extremely high significance.
... In view of these indications that the cancer causing potential of aspartame
is a matter that had been established WAY BEYOND ANY REASONABLE DOUBT,
one can ask: What is the reason for the apparent refusal by the FDA to
invoke for this food additive the so-called Delaney Amendment to the Food,
Drug and Cosmetic Act?"

The Delaney Amendment makes it illegal to allow any residues
of cancer causing chemicals in foods. In his concluding testimony Gross
asked, "Given the cancer causing potential of aspartame how would
the FDA justify its position that it views a certain amount of aspartame
as constituting an allowable daily intake or 'safe' level of it? Is that
position in effect not equivalent to setting a 'tolerance' for this food
additive and thus a violation of that law? And if the FDA itself elects
to violate the law, who is left to protect the health of the public?"
Congressional Record SID835:131 (August 1, l985)

So the FDA allowed a product on the market that had been
proven to cause cancer and gave a carcinogen an allowable daily dose.
Then when the impeccable Ramazzini Study was released that proved aspartame
to be a multipotential carcinogen in 2005, which the FDA had always known,
peer reviewed by 7 world experts, they announced in a report aspartame
doesn't cause cancer and completely ignored it. To make matters worse
they released this notice on a Friday prior to Dr. M. Soffritti releasing
a second study the following day, April 23, 2007 at the Mount Sinai Medical
School of New York showing not only does aspartame trigger cancer but even
in small amounts. If a pregnant woman uses it and the baby survives since
aspartame is a teratogen causing birth defects and mental retardation,
that child can grow up and get cancer. By releasing their report during
the same time period they confused the public. They have yet to comment
on this damning second study. Dr. Soffritti received the Irving J. Selikoff
Award for his work, a reward only given three times in history. Barbara
Metzler, Mission Possible New Jersey and myself attended.

The coverup of dangerous products by FDA cast upon the
public is notorious. Another example is the MSG fiasco. Glutamate researchers
used aspartame as a placebo in studies so they could say MSG wouldn't react
anymore than the placebo. MSG is also an excitotoxin like the aspartic
acid in aspartame as discussed in Dr. Blaylock's book, Excitotoxins: The
Taste That Kills. In 1993 Jack Samuels, President of the Truth in Labeling
Campaign, was reviewing FDA docket files relating to an FDA study on the
safety of amino acids in supplements. In the files, he found a letter
dated March 22, 1991, from Andrew G. Ebert, PhD, Chairman, International
Glutamate Technical Committee - a glutamate industry organization - in
which Ebert admitted that aspartame had been used since at least 1978 in
test and placebo materials that his organization provided to scientists
who study the safety of MSG. www.truthinlabeling.org

A review of studies conducted with the above-referenced
test material clearly indicates that some subjects reacted to both MSG
test material, and placebo material. Scientists conducting such studies
concluded that since subjects reacted to both MSG and placebos, their reactions
were not from MSG. Even though such logic is highly questionable, we now
know that subjects reacted to placebos because of the presence of aspartame,
an additive that causes MSG-type responses in MSG responses in MSG-sensitive
people. Because of the disclosure of the use of aspartame in placebo material
by Jack Samuels, the Federation of American Societies for Experimental
Biology, in its July 1995 report on the safety of MSG in food, concluded
that the use of aspartame in placebo materials was inappropriate. Why
were these early studies not destroyed too? Because the FDA was caught
red-handed. They had known all these years and done nothing. They did
not even slap the hands of the glutamate industry. Is aspartame still
being used as their placebo?

In a Citizens Petition to ban six years ago I exposed
the government documents showing aspartame had never been proven safe and
the FDA had been lying to the public. The law requires that FDA answer
in 180 days. They refused to answer it showing they serve above the law.
In October, 2007 I sent an amendment based on an imminent health hazard
which must be answered immediately. Again, FDA has not answered.

FDA-GATE requires Congress to immediately investigate
aspartame approval, Don Rumsfeld's part in this, and FDA's collusion with
the drug and chemical companies they regulate. In July, 2007 I lectured
in New Zealand and met with their Food Standards who admitted they had
done no studies on aspartame and relied on FDA. New Zealand has their own
petition to ban. So aspartame which is in reality an addictive excitoneurotoxic
carcinogenic drug that interacts with drugs and vaccines is being consumed
in over 100 countries of the world by an unwarned public, and has caused
a global plague. While the 47 members of the UK Parliament have asked
for a ban Food Standards there also using FDA propaganda has basically
ignored the issue except to say they will do an anecdotal study. Aspartame
was approved in the UK by Paul Turner with their agency through a business
deal with Searle. When Parliament found out they had a blow-out, the story
was in the Guardian, but the poison was never rescinded. When New Mexico
attempted to ban aspartame from the state the capital was saturated with
lobbyists lying to the Senate and House again using FDA propaganda. Addressing
the Senate was difficult with a large proportion of Senators sipping on
addictive Diet Coke. Dr. Ken Stoller also testified and told these Senators
he didn't expect to get anywhere when they were using the product but at
least consider the children. The vote to table was actually by someone
who doesn't drink Diet Coke, the only physician in the legislature, Steve
Komadina, MD from Corrales, an obstetrician and gynecologist who strongly
advises his own patients not to use aspartame because of the formaldehyde
neurotoxicity and the abortifacient effects on the fetus. Which lobbyist
got to this OB-GYN physician senator who didn't care about the rest of
the babies in New Mexico?

It was impossible for Searle to prove their neurotoxin
is safe. In one test on seven monkeys five had grand mal seizures and one
died; an 86% casualty rate. Records were destroyed to protect the guilty
FDA regulators and their corporate sugar-daddies who provide more than
half of FDA's funding. Who do you think they work for: you or the chemical
factories? How bad can it get? How about a product that embalms living
tissue and destroys DNA? http://www.mpwhi.com/formaldehyde_from_aspartame.pdf
I flew to Barcelona to speak to the researcher who told me it could kill
200 million people. It already has. Another study FDA has ignored.

Congress should immediately step in and investigate and
Codex should ban aspartame from use.